JUNGLE JINKS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVIII, Issue VIII, 22 February 1902, Page 383

JUNGLE JINKS.

How the Kind Jungle School Boys Helped Old Mrs. Hippo.

I. As the Jungle boys were hurrying back to afternoon school one day they came upon poor lame Mrs Hippo sitting by the roadside sobbing bitterly because she was unable t o’push'her heavy barrow any further. "It is market day in Jungle Town,” she said to Jumbo, “and if I don't sell my potatoes I sha'n’t lie able to pay my landlord his rent.” “Oh. never mind. Mrs Hippo. Dry your eyes, and we’ll go to the market ami sell your potatoes for you. Dr. Lion will cane us. perhaps, for being rate for school, but we don’t care.”

2. “You chaps can do as you like,” sneered the two Boars, “but we are not going to get a caning for the sake of an old woman.” And off they ran to the Jungle School, to tell Dr. Lion how naughty the other boys were. “Very well,” said the Doctor, when they had told him all about. Mrs Hippo’s barrow, “you two can go on with your lessons, and when the others come back I will give them something they richly deserve.” “It’s sure to be a caning this time,” chuckled the elder Boar. “Yes,” whispered his brother, “he said they’d richly deserve it.”

3. But when Jumbo anil the rest came back expecting to be caned, they were astonished to hear Dr. Lion say they could all take a holiday, “lam very pleased indeed to find my boys ready to risk punishment to help a poor old woman,” he added. “You may all run and play now, and the Boars will stay in and do your lessons for you.” Then the Boars saw that they had been too clever, and began to blubber.